Excerpt from Reports on Underfed Children: Reprinted From Minutes of the Board of Education of the City of Chicago, October 21, 1908 In the city of Birmingham a dinner of soup, bread and jam is provided to the necessitous cases in canvas enclosures in the playgrounds during five days of the week. The work 'is under the patron age of the Birmingham School. Cheap Dinner Society. A Mr. Hooker provides breakfasts in fourteen of the poorest schools. Between and are fed during the winter months. The worthy cases are picked out by the teachers and dependence is placed upon the reports of the children to eliminate those who might receive aid needlessly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.